This chart is based on The Top 5 cities for each artist on Spotify. Therefore large cities will feature well known international artists, while smaller cities will feature some smaller local artists. The ranking is based on the number of listeners from the city, as provided by Spotify for the top 5 cities for each artist.

#	Artist	Listeners in Hays
1	Blaine Younger	45
2	HELLEVADER	27
3	Starslinger	20
4	Tree Kitty	14
5	Luigie González	13
6	Lucas Maddy	12
7	Jared "Pete" Gile	11
8	Wes Cossman	10
9	BeenBallin88	10
10	Brock Wagoner	9
11	Nathan Weis	9
12	Prynce Tk	8
13	Miles on End	8
14	Parl	7
15	Kim Barth	7
16	Colt G	7
17	Broken Treaty	7
18	Jadynce Jean	7
19	Bootleg Mercy	6
20	Gryn	5
21	80 Proof Alice	5
22	Sam Unruh	4
23	Aether	4
24	Haymakers	4
25	Skinned Willy	4
26	Thunderbird Hotel	4
27	Blaine Acheson	3
28	Russell Lee Lovenstein	3
29	Of Great Descent	3
30	Challenge Worship	3
31	Sister Kilowatt	3
32	Seth Henry Morse	3
33	Emily Navarro	3
34	Genesis Brown	3
35	Hannah Norris	2
36	3X7	2
37	David McHugh	2
38	Adult Feelings	2
39	Tev	2
40	Cowgirl's Train Set	2
41	Iziik	2
42	CASUALSEXCLUB	2
43	Agnostik	2
44	Dangerously Biased	2
45	Action Boys	2
46	Austin Singleton	2
47	Dem	2
48	Brady Nichols	2
49	IamReconcile	2
50	Colton Cox	2
51	Cukez	2
52	Justin John Rodriguez	2
53	Randy Hill	1
54	Lucas Parker Band	1
55	Terri Laddusaw	1
56	Oppsprätta Schakaler	1
57	Lemon James	1
58	Jaybird	1
59	Ruby Shuz	1
60	Carolina Padro	1
61	Tevin Williams	1
62	Vice Souletric Beats	1
63	DeepFX	1
64	Juanita Craft	1
65	20 Grand Pikaso	1
66	The Petted Lips	1
67	Fred Guggenberger	1
68	The Cool Hands	1
69	Steve Roland	1
70	Sasha Elise	1
71	Two sandwiches short of a lunch box	1
72	Radiator Girls	1
73	Melatonin Girls	1
74	Calvin Decline	1
75	Madylin Goins	1
76	Jarrod Morris	1
77	Dam Gila	1
78	Jitu Tha Jugganot	1
79	Brian Satterwhite	1
80	The Jim Bishop Guitar Army	1
81	Natalie Metcalf	1
82	Craig-Lee Smith	1
83	Jack McBrayer	1
84	Walker Conn	1
85	Sophie Price	1
86	Jason Boley	1
87	Bad Moon Book Club	1
88	Mikayla Lewis	1
89	The Permanent Fix	1
90	Between the Music and Me	1
91	Joe Goll	1
92	Saturday Night's Strike	1
93	jlrxvi	1
94	Boogs	1
95	Caleb Froese	1
96	Dreamland Utopia	1
97	Kent Stanfield	1
98	Lam Lameson	1
99	Liam Beven	1
100	Kiara Negroni	1
101	Eagle & Weeks	1
102	CBF	1
103	Godhammered	1
104	Flyover	1
105	Aj?	1
106	Cole Harris	1
107	LAME	1
108	OG Paper	1
109	Brendan Mott	1
110	House Mood	1
111	David Clutch	1
112	Caido	1
113	Blake England	1
114	NoLukk	1
115	No Favorites	1
116	THE Underdogs	1
117	Angel Madera	1
118	jGreen	1
119	Steve Irwin And The Stingrays	1
120	Jaeden A	1
121	xStarPhil	1
122	SobRay	1
123	The Tangees	1
124	The Colorado Playboys	1
125	Mike Ryan	1
126	Joshua Alcantar	1
127	Starlight Distraction	1
128	95 Crip	1
129	Nia the Rapper	1
130	Epyk Sounds	1
131	Ja.An Lasé	1
132	Be-Easy	1
133	Tinderbox	1
134	Butcher Clown	1
135	haLf	1
136	Sky Air Fire	1
137	Domenico Pepe	1
138	Sayer	1
139	The Pepiband	1
140	Z3LIO$	1
141	Reddance	1
142	Kindrix	1